Place Name Commemorates the telegraph signal station which was set up here by the Admiralty in 1796 to convey messages…
Place Name Takes its name from Bridgford in Nottinghamshire, now known as West Bridgford. Originally a small agricultural village, its…
Place Name Breamore, is a village in the west of Hampshire, which is particularly noted for its 10thCentury church, St.…
Place Name Bowling has been popular in Putney since the early 17thCentury, the green that was laid here in 1636…
Place Name William Borradaile (10 July 1792 – February 16, 1838) vicar of Wandsworth in the 1830s, who killed himself,…
Place Name Takes its name from Bordon, in the east of Hampshire, dates back only to 1863 when it was…
Place Name Dr Ralph Blegborough (April 8, 1769 – January 23, 1827) was a physician and “man mid-wife” whose interest…
Place Name It is the original route of the main highway to Portsmouth and the south-west England as it passed…
Place Name William Ponsonby (1704 – March 11, 1793) was the 2nd Earl of Bessborough, who in 1761 commissioned Sir…
Place Name An admittedly oblique reference to the nearby Caesar’s Camp on Wimbledon Common. Elizabethan antiquary William Camden referenced the…